GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CONCEPT OF SOCIALISATION
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Question
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Nature is far more important than nurture.
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Nurture is far more important than nature.
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Nature is a little more important than nurture.
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Nurture is equally as important as nature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which is stronger: nature or nurture? Many researchers consider the interaction between heredity and environment-nature with nurture as opposed to nature versus nurture-to be the most important influencing factor of all. Height is another example of a trait influenced by an interaction between nature and nurture.
Detailed explanation-2: -While the nature/nurture debate rages in the mass media, most scholars reject it altogether. Instead, social scientists and biologists alike recognize that our behavior and psychology is the result of an interaction between nature and nurture (yep, even sociologists like myself).
Detailed explanation-3: -Nurture is more important than nature because our traits are learned. Albert Bandura used Bobo dolls to prove that aggression is a learned action. This experiment shows that nurture has more of an influence over our behaviors than nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the “nature vs nurture” debate, nurture refers to personal experiences (i.e. empiricism or behaviorism). Nature is your genes. The physical and personality traits determined by your genes stay the same irrespective of where you were born and raised. Nurture refers to your childhood, or how you were brought up.
Detailed explanation-5: -While not denying the role of biology in explaining some aspects of human behaviour, sociology very much emphasises the role of society (nurture) rather than nature in explaining human action.